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We can rebuild him: May 2007
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We can rebuild him. Thursday, May 31, 2007. Shuffle : Three-Quarters Blind Eyes/Found a Little Baby. I love when songs begin with a count in. One, two, three.". He asks in "Found a Little Baby", and his only answer is that hummed chorus and the title line. They resemble the greatest double A-sided singles in that its impossible to choose between them, each song so different yet so good. Posted by David N at 12:55 am. Saturday, May 26, 2007. I'm just lucky.". Posted by David N at 1:07 am. Before about my ...
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We can rebuild him: July 2007
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We can rebuild him. Tuesday, July 31, 2007. Antonioni -name like a game". I can watch the world through Michelangelo Antonioni's eyes forever. He is the greatest stylist of the modern era." - David Thomson. He was a director who helped shape and define the artform, and in many ways he remains unsurpassed. Posted by David N at 10:19 pm. I see what I see, and I know what I know, but nobody believes me.". So, will his death alter his reputation and lead more young people to his films? Tuesday, July 24, 2007.
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We can rebuild him: March 2007
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We can rebuild him. Friday, March 30, 2007. Screengrab - "Its my manor! But he also has some great dialogue to wrap those London vowel sounds around, especially his famous farewell speech to his prospective American partners, which ends with the following lines: "The Mafia? Posted by David N at 1:59 am. Wednesday, March 28, 2007. A spectacle of fearsome acts.". Russell Crowe perhaps, or George Clooney? Are any of those actors comparable to the Tom Cruise or Tom Hanks of ten years ago? I don't know, y'kno...
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We can rebuild him: January 2007
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We can rebuild him. Monday, January 22, 2007. Wanted : For Being a Dick. Which depicts its hero getting kicked, punched and landing repeatedly on his crotch. The President himself is an ex-wrestler and porn star who cannot understand why his country's crops have stopped growing - they are being sprayed with a soft-drink rather than water - and who keeps order in his "House of Reprasentin" with a sub-machine gun. Advertisements spout slogans like "If you don't smoke Tarrlytons - fuck you! But a show like ...
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We can rebuild him: December 2006
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We can rebuild him. Thursday, December 28, 2006. Posted by David N at 2:37 am. Friday, December 22, 2006. On Football - No. 4 : Mark Hughes. Sometimes you simply cannot avoid football cliches. Sometimes they say it all, so well, that you have to embrace them. Mark Hughes, or Sparky, as Man Utd fans know him, was never a great goalscorer. But he was most definitely a scorer of great goals. He saved Man Utd in the 1994 FA Cup final with a volley in the last few minutes:. Posted by David N at 9:09 pm. She o...
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We can rebuild him: February 2007
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We can rebuild him. Tuesday, February 27, 2007. Screengrab - This Is This. Or the Strange Case of Michael Cimino). Has any director ever trumped "difficult second album syndrome" quite so effectively? Which raises the question : what could have happened to Cimino? How can such talent simply disappear? Perhaps its far simpler than that. Perhaps he knew he could never equal The Deer Hunter after his only real attempt, Heavens Gate, almost ruined him. Perhaps he gave up. Who could blame him? Pow, wham, thud!
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We can rebuild him: June 2007
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We can rebuild him. Thursday, June 28, 2007. Jim Harrison, "Revenge", 1979. Posted by David N at 8:02 pm. Sunday, June 17, 2007. On Football - No. 10: Marco van Basten. This outrageous finish, against Real Madrid, is a display of amazing control and power for a header. He manages to put it right in the top corner too:. Posted by David N at 2:16 am. Friday, June 08, 2007. Read Norman Mailer, or get a new tailor.". Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.". Norman Mailer Fights Rip Torn. In Ameri...
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We can rebuild him: April 2007
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We can rebuild him. Monday, April 30, 2007. You can put a cat in the oven, but that don't make it a biscuit". No problem. David Beckham's first season at Real Madrid? Films, it is a Roy of the Rovers fantasy which makes little real attempt to honestly portray the game as it is. I think it is. The Maradona film and "Goal! 3" apart, there seems to be nothing at all on the horizon. Posted by David N at 1:25 am. Friday, April 27, 2007. Shuffle : Slow Life. Posted by David N at 1:45 am. Monday, April 23, 2007.
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We can rebuild him: October 2006
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We can rebuild him. Thursday, October 12, 2006. Or are you gonna bite? QT seemed like an incredibly promising young director. He obviously understood the power of the medium and had a great command of it, but what was most palpable was his excitement to be allowed to use it. He would have understood Orson Welles' line on the set of Citizen Kane : "This is the best toy train set a boy ever had! Nope He returned with a revenge epic about martial arts movies and spaghetti Westerns. Nice one, Quentin. Its no...
